Host a concert

Name of the church or venue Please enter the venue.

Full address (for the poster) Please enter the address.

Parish office address (if different)

Preferred date or period — first choice Please enter a date or period.

Second possible option

Time of Mass(es) on the day of the concert, if any

The parish priest (if in a church)

Name

Phone (preferably mobile)

Email

Person in charge of organising concerts

Name Please enter your name.

Phone

Email Please enter a valid email address.

Is the venue undergoing works?

No Yes

If so, please specify (organs, stained glass, choir, exterior…)

Is the venue heated for a winter concert?

Yes No Not applicable

Number of seats

Can the parish office receive posters and flyers?

Yes No

If so, delivery address

Rehearsal time available on site

Rehearsal details

The Académie Musicale de Liesse is a semi-professional ensemble specialising in sacred vocal and instrumental music, and it often travels a long way to sing in the churches and venues that welcome it. We therefore wish to be able to sing or play the entire musical programme of our concerts.

In churches, we perform only sacred music, with particular care for the sacred character of the place: no secular piece will be performed in the church. A programme will be sent to you about a month in advance. Our repertoire consists mainly of sacred polyphonic works and instrumental pieces.

We ask you to trust us fully with the choice of pieces, which will be sent to you about a month in advance. For our part, as soon as a date is set, we will fill in your agreement and send you a copy of our insurance certificate.

At the end of the concert, we usually invite the audience outside the church to hear a few secular songs. Please confirm whether this is possible:

Yes, on the church forecourt Yes, somewhere else No

If somewhere else, please specify

The Academy has an organ class: our student organists are qualified and used to playing both choir organs and gallery organs. It matters to our semi-professional choir to be able to perform its works with our own organists. Please tell us below what is available.

The resident organist

Does not play; lets our organists play To be arranged

Gallery organ

Available?

Yes No

Tuned and playable?

Yes No

Permission to play it?

Yes No

Name of the resident organist

Organist's contact details

Location of the keys and specific instructions

Choir organ

Available?

Yes No

Tuned and playable?

Yes No

Permission to play it?

Yes No

Name of the resident organist

Organist's contact details

Location of the keys and specific instructions

Piano

Available?

Yes No

Tuned and playable?

Yes No

Permission to play it?

Yes No

Name of the person in charge

Contact details of the person in charge

Specific instructions

The Academy usually has no preference and can stand wherever you wish, while remaining very respectful when singing near a tabernacle where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved.

Where can the choir (55 singers) stand?

No preference In the chancel Other

If the Paul VI altar can be moved, do you allow us to move it respectfully (put back as soon as the concert ends)?

Yes No Not applicable

If another position, please specify

Is there a microphone to introduce the concert and the pieces (strongly recommended)?

Yes No

Number of toilets nearby

Number of urinals nearby

Exact location of the toilets and urinals

A room for the belongings of the 55 singers?

Yes No

Is this room heated?

Yes No Not applicable

Address of the room for belongings

A room available for dinner ~2h30 before the concert (e.g. around 5.30pm for an 8pm concert)?

Yes Yes, during a specific time slot No

Dinner room — details (times, address)

Sale of our CDs during the interval and at the exit?

Yes No

A table available for selling CDs?

Yes No

Our concerts are generally free: do you agree to a retiring collection at the exit, for our benefit (transport, musicians, posters…)?

Yes No

Can an announcement be made at the end of the Mass before the concert?

Yes No

Announcement made by

Someone from the Academy Someone from the parish The priest

Poster distribution by Academy teams (shops, leaflets, magazines, radio…), entirely managed by the Academy?

Yes No

Announcement in the parish newsletter?

Yes No

Announcement on your website?

Yes No

Local newspapers / media you recommend (name + contact person)

Other ideas for publicity

The host parish and/or organisation often covers the cost of transport (one coach for 30 to 70 musicians). In most cases, we cover the cost of publicity (posters, flyers, advertising…) and the artists' fees (singers, organists, instrumentalists…). We fund these two items through a retiring collection at the end of the concert, for our benefit.

Poster printing at your expense?

Yes, in full No

Contribution from your parish / organisation to transport costs?

Yes, in full Yes, partly No

If a partial contribution, up to a maximum of

Collection for the benefit of the Académie Musicale de Liesse?

Yes, in full No

A fee planned for the Academy?

Yes No

If a fee, amount

Other financial arrangement (if you usually work that way)

By hosting us, the parish / association / venue undertakes not to take any collection or raise any money in the name of the Academy, nor to fund any service connected with its visit, without its explicit, written and prior agreement.

Photo of the interiorJPEG or PNG, 10 MB max.

Photo of the exterior (forecourt…)JPEG or PNG, 10 MB max.

Other comments

Concert request

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